Example sentences of "[is] [verb] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 2 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 3 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 4 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 5 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 6 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 7 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 8 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 9 | This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) . |
| 10 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 11 | The most useful is the automatic mode : by keeping the trigger gently depressed , the tool will fire a staple every time the nose is pushed on to a surface . |
| 12 | Modernity is defined against pre-modernity , reason against irrationality and superstition , and this divide is mapped on to a symbolic geography that counterposes the West and its Orient . |
| 13 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 14 | This can simply be described as a flat panel display that is written on with a stylus ( pen ) . |
| 15 | The Colour badge is stitched on to a large piece of scarlet cloth matching the material of the jacket . |
| 16 | Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? " |
| 17 | Largely because the Moon is acted on to a significant extent by both the Sun and the Earth its orbital elements are subject to relatively rapid changes . |
| 18 | During its maturation it is subject to conditions not exactly like those the mother matured in ; and at fertilization it is acted on by a mate with a constitution unlike its own and unlike its mother 's . |
| 19 | To lay an egg , the female grasps a hair and deposits some ‘ cement ’ which is extruded on to a hair just before the egg is laid . |
| 20 | Rotherham striker John Buckley ( also pictured inset ) is helped on to a stretcher after fracturing his skull |
| 21 | But failure to appreciate the force of this distinction can also shipwreck attempts by observers to understand religion — to read correctly what is going on as a person performs a religious ritual or speaks religious words ( see Chapter 10 where an assessment task on this is suggested ) . |
| 22 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 23 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 24 | The computer turns its interpretation of what is going on into a television picture — healthy tissue is coloured green , tumours show up red . |
| 25 | The imperfections. of these methods of plasma diagnostics — the term used to describe the art of measuring what is going on in a plasma — gave rise to persistent difficulties and ambiguities until the late 1960s , when lasers had arrived on the scene . |
| 26 | How do people arrive at conclusions about what is going on in a particular instance ? |
| 27 | But the real fun is going on in a nearby barn with pumpkin lanterns . |
| 28 | So sorting out what is going on in an ERP is like untangling a complex bundle of many different strands of similar wool with one hand tied behind the back . |
| 29 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 30 | Generally what is needed is far greater signalling of what is going on in an essay , and more explicit management of the material presented . |